Nuclear fusion reaction releases almost twice the energy put in
The US National Ignition Facility has achieved even higher energy yields since breaking even for the first time in 2022, but a practical fusion reactor is still a long way off
Saying nothing will ever work ever and nothing is ever good is not being skeptical.
The article you’re commenting on is the citation, you’re being cynical and acting in bad faith.
People disagree with you, I’d wager if you used a little more tact you might have more reasonable discussion.
No wonder people think fission is a sure thing.
This article is about fusion, not fission.
And I believe we’ve reached the point where everyone can recognize that Philo is arguing in bad faith.
Not in our lifetime, nor the lifetime of our children or grandchildren. And it is almost a certainty not to be ever in the lifetime of man.
Sure sounds like never.
Ah right, you left open the possibility that maybe in a billion years it might work. You sure got us. Fuck off.
I'm sorry you are saying other people are emotional and having responses like that? You are entirely trying to instigate a fight so you can feel some level of superiority?
You are having exactly the conversation you are trying to have and it's not a legitimate one.
I am not saying anying will never work
"And it is almost a certainty not to be ever in the lifetime of man."
Let's just sliiiiide those goalposts a few hundred more feet huh?
Why will a tokamak never work, exactly? We’ve been running fusion experiments in them for 60 years and have a pretty good idea that we can make one big enough to produce power. We’re just baby stepping through the work so we don’t build a $30 billion dollar power plant that’s missing a design element.
K-DEMO, JT-60, DEMO, CFETR, STEP, and the US DoE’s planned reactor suggest a high level of confidence that the science is already there. It’s just an engineering problem, much like the nuclear bomb in 1935.
